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Letters Patent No. 73,052, datent January 7, 1868,

IMPROVED BED-BOTTOM.

To WHoM I'r'MAYV CONCERN: s

l Be it known that I, ADOLPH SGHLINGMAN, of Alexandria, Preble county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Bed-Bottom; and do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this speciication.

My invention relates to a cheap, easily-adjusted, and highly-elastic bottom for beds. In 'the accompanying drawings- I Figure 1 represents portions ofthe head,foot, and one side of a bedsteadlprovided with my improved bottom.

Figure 2 shows a modification of my tightening-device. i

A represents the head, B the foot, and G one side of a bedstead, which may be of the kind patented to me on the 30th'of April, 1867, or ofany approved form. The ends of the foot-rail D otthe bed-bottomenter sockets in the sides, which, when my aforesaid patent is employed, may be partially formed by the wedges X, that attach the foot and sides. This rail D may be a at slab, as represented. Tl1e'head-rail E4 of the bottom is a cylindrical pieceof timber, terminating in gudgeons e, that occupy suitable sockets in the sides. Bothhead and foot-rails are provided with customary pins, el, around which the cord F is passed in longitudinallyparallel seiies, being also rove through perforated and exible cross-slats G1 G2 Gr3 G4, in the manner shown. Where the bottom is designed for the use of'adults, I also add. stitfening-slats H, which, being introduced above the head and foot-slatsG1 Ggand below the intermediate ones, serve to sustain the extreme edges ofthe bottom, and to prevent any undue sagging, when the bottom may be unequally loaded, on its respective sides. The head; rail E has two ratchet-wheels, I, which receive pawls J. The cord being vrove, as above, through the cross-slats and around the pins, is tightened by Arotating the rail E in direction ofthe arrow, and tllevpawls J hold it to the desired adjustment. The 4cross-slats are el'ective to prevent undue sagging of any one part, and also to prevent the lateral spreading or separation of the individual stretches of cord by a heavy load-on one part. The crossslats Grl Gr2 C3 Gr4 may be shifted toward the head or foot or middle, so as to sti'en or slacken the bottom at any desired part. A modiicationvof my tighteningldevice is seen at igf2, where vl) is the foot-rail and K is a stretcher-rail, having horizontal perforations, I{, .through which the cord is rove, and semicircular bosses L for the bight ofthe cord, and around which it is readily drawn without undue fraying or wearing;` M are screwbolts," by which the rail is drawn back. This form is preferably employed in all bedsteads where the height of the roller E would bc objectionable.

I claim herein as new, and of my invention- 1. A bed-bottom, consisting of the cord F and transverse perforated slats G GJ2 G3 Gr# with or without the longitudinal stilening-slats H, the cord being reve forth and back through said slats, and held at the ends by pins, substantially as described and represented.

2.. The combination, with the cord F and transverse G G2 G3 G4, of an adjusting or tightening-rail E or K, applied and operating substantially. as described and represented. y

In testimony of whichlinvention, I hereunto set my hand.

ADOLPH SCHLINGMAN.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, JAMES H. LAYMAN, 

